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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 4h

Our 70% Off Sale is live! 📚🎉 Save on thousands of select titles & editions across subjects until November 16. Explore the books on sale and refresh your shelves this autumn: buff.ly/v6OcCrc #ReadUP #Sale

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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 4h

📣 Coming soon! In 1894 in Paris, Alfred Dreyfus was arrested and falsely accused of treason. As the only Jewish captain in the French Army, antisemitism underlay his conviction for selling military secrets to Germany...

Exhibition poster for "J'Accuse! — Press, Polemic and the Dreyfus Affair," featuring a halftone portrait of a uniformed officer against faded French newspaper pages, with exhibition dates 5 November 2026–26 February 2027.

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Sonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The British Centre for Literary Translation offers two BCLT translation residencies every year for UK-based literary translators. The residencies are for 4 months, one day per week. @bcltuea.bsky.social www.bclt.org.uk/translators-...

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Translators in Residence

University of East Anglia

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Siraya, an Indigenous language declared extinct in the 19th century, is now being taught in 26 schools in Taiwan. Siraya activist Uma Talavan & her husband Edgar Macapili spent over 20 years reconstructing the language. buff.ly/2roj7FB #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Siraya language, deemed ‘extinct’ over a century ago, finds its voice again in Taiwan

TAINAN, Taiwan — Since she was old enough to understand it, Uma Talavan has known she belongs to the Indigenous Siraya people. She knew almost nothing of her ethnicity, however, the identity of…

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Sonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

“A borrowing in Yiddish from an East or a West Slavic language… pupik has its exact equivalent in the South Slavic pupak. Something as intimate as a body part, and not just any body part, but the original link to every person’s source, can be borrowed across cultures.” @uclssees.bsky.social

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British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies @biajs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The BIAJS 2026 bulletin is live! Read below to find out about our past and upcoming conferences, reports from Jewish studies centres in the UK and Ireland, book/essay prize winners, our studentship holder project, PGR rep, and member publications! biajs.co.uk/wp-content/u...

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Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Call for Applications for postdoctoral and other fellowships at New Europe College, Bucharest - do apply! Deadline for submitting applications: 17 January 2027 nec.ro/fellowships/...

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Apply for a fellowship : NEC

NEC Institute for Advanced Study

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Sonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies @ushmm.bsky.social is offering a virtual writing group designed for North American-based Holocaust scholars who are untenured, contingent, or working outside of academia. Deadline: October 30, 2026 www.ushmm.org/research/opp...

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Virtual Writing Group - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is pleased to announce a virtual writing group oriented towards North American-...

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Sonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If you missed the UK's first Boris Lurie exhibition, the Ben Uri Gallery also created an online exhibition of works by this radical artist, a Holocaust survivor who incorporated trauma imagery and critiques of capitalism, sexual commodification, and pop art in his work. benuri.org/exhibitions/...

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BORIS LURIE (1924-2008): Witness and Wound - Overview

The following online exhibition was curated to celebrate the first exhibition of Boris Lurie's works in the UK, titled Boris Lurie: Ever the Radical at OXO Gallery London (23rd September - 11th Octobe...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In 2012-13, there were 51 UK universities offering Russian and East European Studies. In 2024-25, there were 32, and provision is shrinking further. Perhaps that's a serious security risk? www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...

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Daniel Jacobius Morgan @jacobius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Last minute re-up of this. Deadline is next week!

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British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies @biajs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Call for papers for a panel 'Material Culture and the Centre/Periphery Model' led by @evafrojmovic0.bsky.social at our BIAJS 2027, see details below! Deadline for abstracts is 24 November; limited PGR/ECR bursaries available; inviting contributions on art, museums, heritage, architecture & more…

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British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies @biajs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference: 28-30 June 2027 at University of Leeds 📣 Call for Proposals on “Rethinking Pluralism and Peripheries in Jewish Studies”, deadline 1 December More info: biajs.co.uk/2026/09/09/c...

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Lewis Walpole Library @lewiswalpolelib.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Applications for the 2027-28 #Fellowship year are now being accepted through November 2. Apply today apply.interfolio.com/186941 Questions? Email walpole@yale.edu info: walpole.library.yale.edu/fellowships/... #Long18thCentury #BritishStudies #CommunityofScholars #LewisWalpoleLibrary @YaleLibrary

Detail from an 18th-century satirical print with 3 people (Louis 16 on Marie Antoinette's shoulders, and she on Edmund Burke's) and the words The Lewis Walpole Library Fellowships & Travel Grants in Eighteenth-Century Studies.

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UCL Institute of Archaeology @uclarchaeology.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We are hiring: Lecturer (Teaching) in European Prehistory Fixed-term | Full time | Hybrid Know someone who might be a good fit? Tag them in comments! 🔗Find out more: tinyurl.com/EuroPreHist 📷 Charlotte Frearson #Jobs #Careers #Hiring #Archaeology #UCL

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Holocaust Educational Foundation @hefnu.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University (HEFNU) is accepting proposals for Academic Year 2027-2028 Teaching Grants. More information can be found at hef.northwestern.edu/grants/teach... SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 8 December 2026, 11:59 PM PST

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British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies @biajs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

📕 🏆 Call for submissions: the 2027 BIAJS Book Prize! Inviting applications from books in any area of academic Jewish Studies related to early modern through contemporary period across all disciplines (Humanities, Social Sciences, Arts and Law). EOI deadline is 15 Jan: biajs.co.uk/2026/10/06/c...

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Call open for Book Prize 2027

Call for Submissions: 2027 Book Prize We are pleased to announce that the BIAJS book prize is now accepting submissions of interest for 2027, in the category of early modern through contempo…

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Tom Langen @calocitta.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

US has now eliminated essentially all primary research funding for the social sciences, including Anthropology, Archaeology, Economics, Geography, Linguistics, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Science and Technology Studies. The only country in the developed world to have done this.

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‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research

Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 06/10/2026

Just a friendly reminder that Curran Fellowship applications are due next week on 15 October! Open to all researchers, Curran awards offer up to $6,000 USD to support #19thC periodical research that makes use of print and archival sources. Application guidance here: rs4vp.org/awards/curra...

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Sonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The English Department at Vanderbilt University is accepting applications for a tenured Associate Professor in the field of Global Modernism. apply.interfolio.com/194557?fbcli...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 06/10/2026

‘Before the war, far from being some sort of secret dissident, she was a regular “Soviet person, who wanted to explore, understand, respect and build new things” – that is, someone with standard Soviet values.’ Sheila Fitzpatrick on Russian diarist Olga Freidenberg. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Sheila Fitzpatrick · Double Barbarism: Stalin under the Blanket

‘Siege’ became a key metaphor in Olga Freidenberg’s analysis of her own life and that of Soviet society; and she...

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Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Ramapo College of NJ @chgs-ramapo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bonnie and Richard Fertel z”l Memorial Emerging Scholars Prize and Lecture in Holocaust and Antisemitism Studies Eligibility requirements and application instructions at www.ramapo.edu/holocaust/sp... Application deadline is Oct. 31 at 11:59 p.m. (eastern) Please help spread the word!

Bonnie and Richard Fertel z”l Memorial
Emerging Scholars Prize and Lecture
in Holocaust and Antisemitism Studies

The Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies at Ramapo College of NJ invites early-career scholars to submit a proposal for our annual Fertel Memorial Emerging Scholars Prize and Lecture in Holocaust & Antisemitism Studies.

We will formally recognize the winning candidate in the spring semester, when they deliver a public talk at Ramapo College.

CHGS extends its deep gratitude to the Fertel family for their generosity and commitment to our mission.

Eligibility requirements and application instructions are available on our website.

Contact Us
201-684-7409
holgen@ramapo.edu
www.ramapo.edu/holocaust

Apply by Oct. 31 at 11:59 pm eastern

https://www.ramapo.edu/holocaust/special-programs/fertel_endowment/

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Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Corset ad in Yiddish, Chicago 1918

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Sonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hopped over to Oxford for a day of the 500 Years of Yiddish Printing: Symposium. Congrats to PhD student Giovanna Truong for putting together a rich program of talks and an Early Modern Yiddish song workshop with Diana Matut. @ochjs.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social medieval.ox.ac.uk/500-years-of...

Rachelle Grossman presenting on “Yiddish Printing in Postwar Poland”

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Sonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Mazel tov to the excellent @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social! And give it a listen to learn about the Yiddish popular culture of the London East End.

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In geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

New from the blog: “Briv funem arkhiv: Finding Yiddish Panamá, Looking for Yiddish France”: Read more about Nick Underwood’s research on Unzer vort (Our Word) published in Panamá in 1945 🦚 ingeveb.org/blog/finding...

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Sonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’d be keen to read more about classic Yiddish writer I. L. Peretz’s (and other Yiddish modernists’) frequent use of ellipses but I doubt it had any bearing on their migration patterns or potential for violence.

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SUNY Press @sunypress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Coming in January, long-lost Yiddish classic Labzik: Tales of a Clever Pup will at last be made fully available in English! Preorder at tinyurl.com/2zzjnwmc #forthcomingfriday

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Migration Museum, London, is hiring a part-time (3 days per week) curator for a year to help build the vision of the new museum. £40k pro rata plus 5% matched pension contribution. Deadline for applications 18 October.

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We’re Hiring: Curator, Contemporary Art (Part-time)

The Migration Museum is seeking a Contemporary Art Curator to join their team on a part-time basis. Application deadline: 18 October 2026.

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Christopher Silver @christophersilver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The Department of Jewish Studies and the Department of Sociology invite applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position (Segal Chair in Jewish Studies), commencing August 1, 2027." Come work with us at McGill! More information can be found here: www.mcgill.ca/jewishstudie...

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Job Postings

For course lectureship opportunities in Winter 2027, please see the Course lectureships tab. Assistant Professor Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Jewish Studies, with a Second Specialization in Socio...

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Samantha Katz Seal @samanthalkseal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We have a problem in British history if an article like this can be written/published without mentioning Edward’s expulsion of Jews from England in 1290 or the coin-clipping persecutions of the 1280s. Anglo-Jewish history IS English history. If your history books don’t reflect that, rewrite them.

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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 01/10/2026

Some beautiful but unintended irony in how news outlets are sharing the “AI is helping uncover Yiddish history” story with AI-generated photographs of people who never existed and a letter written in gibberish that is supposed to pass as Yiddish

AI generated image of two hands holding a letter written completely in gibberish, with a photograph of a family that never existed, in front of a laptop with even more gibberish

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Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) @cessnews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

📣 Open Position 📣 Assistant Professor, Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture 📍 Yale University | New Haven, USA 📅 Application deadline: October 20, 2027 (23:59 EST) 👉️ For more details, see the job posting: buff.ly/MyIakuI #centraleurasia #eurasianstudies #sovietstudies #yaleuniversity #newhaven

Poster advertising job opening. Rounded beige text box with black border and black, serifed, boldface font centered over photo of New Haven skyline with Yale University buildings, green trees, and a blue sky. Kazakh pattern in beige, red, and green in header and footer of design

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Jüdische Studien @juedstudien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🗓️ Deadline extended! Submit your paper now until October 15th @unicologne.bsky.social

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.” Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...

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Perry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million

"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic...

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Sonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I didn’t know about the Vauxhall connection! Thanks for that.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today is 85 years since the massacre at Babyn Yar in Kyiv where over the course of two days, September 29 and 30, 1941, the Germans shot nearly 34,000 of Kyiv’s Jews. The Yiddish writer Itsik Kipnis documented the third anniversary (yortsayt) of the massacre in 1944, when … 1/3

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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪

A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The British-Lithuanian Society’s next event will be an online talk from Sandra Petrukonytė, Chief Curator at the Lost Shtetl Museum on 22 October. Please email blssecretary@hotmail.com if you would like to receive a Zoom link

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Sonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Times are hard but this online class on early Yiddish song looks EXCELLENT. @biajs.bsky.social

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German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Last chance to apply for our next round of scholarships! For more information: www.ghil.ac.uk/opportunitie... #scholarship #skystorians #studyhistory

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Jay Geller @jaygeller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Now that the BBC has picked up this story, it has gone "viral" and gone beyond the bubble of experts on German politics and society. www.bbc.com/news/article... I thought I would add some more context that isn't in the article. #Stoplersteine #Germany #HolocaustMemory

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German town bans stumbling stone memorials to Nazi victims

Germany's education minister has branded the ban on the small brass memorial plaques a "scandal".

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There's still time to sign up to our first 3 short courses of this term: 19 Nov Sources to Data: Excel and Alternatives for Historians w/ @justincolson.bsky.social 27 Nov Masterclass in Public Speaking and Presentation Skills for Historians 8-11 Dec Databases for Historians Info: shorturl.at/Vwbx2

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Research Training and Short Courses

We deliver high-quality training programmes and unique learning opportunities to a wide community of historians of all career stages and historical interests.

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